Pixel Piracy Dev Suggests Piracy, Wins

A
thread on Reddit from yesterday warned fellow readers to be very wary of
buying the early access edition of Pixel Piracy in the
on Steam summer sale
(thanks Joao). This prompted a response from developer Alexander Poysky that was
not only open to criticisms of the unfinished game, but included his
encouragement to pirate it for a firsthand chance to gauge its worthiness.
A
follow-up post on the Steam community forums discusses his reasoning. "I
remember not being able to buy games because I quite literally wouldn't be able
to purchase that week's food if I did. That wasn't that long ago," Alexander
explains. "This is a once in a lifetime chance for me, and I'd never squander it
over the chance to cash a quick buck. I ALWAYS give anyone who doesn't have the
economic means to purchase my game a copy, ALWAYS." He also describes just how
successful this unusual approach turned out to be:

First of all, wow,
holy cow! The flash sale was unexpected, but what was TRULY unexpected was the
absolutely overwhelming influx of people purchasing the game.

When the sale started, I said I'd have a beer for every thousand sales we had.
I'm not a drinker, so I soon regretted it.